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The composition of alkyl radicals (AR) formed by γ-radiolysis (T=77 K) of polycrystallinen-alkanes with different lengths of the carbon chain (C(5), C(7), C(10), C(11), and C(18)) and their polymeric analog (polyethylene) was estimated from the ESR spectra. The ESR spectra of the irradiatedn-alkanes are superpositions of the signals from the H3CC.HCH2− and −CH2C.HCH2− radicals, whose HFS constants with α and β protons as well as the equilibrium conformation are independent of the chain length of then-alkane molecule. A dependence of the concentration of the radicals on the chain length ofn-alkane was found. The absence of the −CH2C.H2 radicals that may arise upon H atom elimination from the Me fragments of then-alkane molecules is most likely related to the transfer of excitation energy from the Me group to the neighboring methylene fragment and the transformation of the −CH2C.H2 radicals into H3CC.HCH2− radicals. With account for this, the concentrations of the AR formed were suggested to be proportional to the number of H atoms at the corresponding C atom.
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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1034–1037, June, 2000.
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Allayarov, S.R., Barkalov, I.M. A study of alkyl radicals in the matrix of polycrystallinen-alkane γ-irradiated at 77 K. Russ Chem Bull 49, 1028–1031 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02494889
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